The attack was years in the making, an AQAP leader said in a video, claiming U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was the mastermind behind it.
Al-Awlaki was the terror group's spokesman before a U.S. drone strike killed him in Yemen in 2011. For days, intelligence analysts have been trying to piece together whether the gunmen who attacked the magazine met him on trips to Yemen -- a theory that could be bolstered by the new video's claim.
AQAP did not claim responsibility for Friday's deadly siege at a kosher grocery store in Paris, but praised it.
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